GROOVOLOGY OF THE METAVERSE By RAY CASTLE www.raycastle.com

Full Moons highlight both sides of the equation. The simplicity of Taurus. Mars, Mercury, Venus now clustered there heightening the senses, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, money, budgets, resources. Contrasted with Scorpio’s deep emotional underground where buried fears and desires reside. The feeling and bounty we share with others.

The Sun goes into earthy practical Taurus but Venus enters adventurous Aries amping up ardour which can stir a conflict between risk taking and playing it safe. Mercury, the communication planet, also in Aries, as is bold brazen action planet Mars, goes direct on the weekend, which gets projects moving forward and brings increased connective traction making new connections. Delays caused by complications during the previous 3 week retro period flow better. There is a freedom loving hookup between Venus/Uranus on the weekend which can spark quirky attractions, risque romantic escapades or upset alliances or ignite social plans.

There’s a rambunctious stampede of planets in fiery, bold, adventurous, Aries. But there is undertow with Mercury, the planet influencing information, communication and transportation, retrograde for the next 24 days. Hmm… how fitting and intrepid: I am off to Israel for my first visit to the play a retro 90s (Rhythmystec) DJ set.

Mercury Retrograde: March 30 - April 23, 2011....Re Re Re... revise, redeliver, review, recondition, reconsider, repair, repossess, redesign... It can be a nuisance to business as usual, but enjoy nonverbal activities (like diving into retro music), and give attention to neglected maintenance of an underfed inner life. The key to navigating this Merc retro period successfully is to double-check everything.

This weekend’s Full Moon is one of the most pivotal times of 2011. This is the 2nd of six SuperMoons this year, generating stronger tugs on the Earth’s oceans, tectonic plates, and energy grids. In addition this Full Moon peaks just one day before the vernal Equinox, which is the cosmic new year, starting March 21st. The alignment of the Earth’s equator with the Sun at the equinox causes a reduction in the Earth’s magnetic field, facilitating “switching channels” and increasing access to higher dimensions and new information. These cosmic gateways were recognised by many ancient cultures.

As the Sun goes into the first degree of Aries on Equinox it joins with awakening and shocking Uranus which went into Aries at the time of the Japan earthquake last Friday. The radiant rays of the Sun will amplify the Uranus Pluto square in cardinal signs, which is becoming more intense towards 2012. The implications of the catastrophic seismic and technological nuclear events in Sendai are going to have far reaching species survival implications for a highly industrial, rapacious global economy impinging upon a fragile ecology, which is tragically vulnerable to irresistible forces of nature (the cosmos).

The Full Moon is occurring at 29, the last degree of Pisces, the last sign of the Zodiac. A collective emotion water sign of metaphysical realities beyond our five senses. Neptune the ruling planet of Pisces is at the last degree of Aquarius conjuncting Chiron and Ceres, which heightens an awareness to feel the unity of with all life.

The Galactic Center at 27 degrees Sagittarius, an energy source millions of times larger and denser than our Sun, is a colossal transmitter of gamma, X-ray, and ultraviolet radiation that affects the electromagnetic field of the Earth and all its inhabitants.

An edgy, electrifying, rebellious, revolutionary air of discontent on the New Moon in communal minded Aquarius, Thursday, commencing The Year Of The Rabbit. Feisty, combative, anarchic, Mars, also in emancipatory Aquarius, fuels combustive impulses joining in the freedom chant to spur provocative behaviour and confrontations with authority.

A signature that chimes with the building tension of Uranus square Pluto, which is breaking down outmoded political and financial structures, becoming exact mid 2012.

All the various model Dat players were highly neurotic and prone to malfunction, but were extremely practical for the parties. I even met the designer engineer of the TCD-3. He was amazed at use they had been put through at hard core out door parties with swirling dust from stampeding dance floors in Goa.

Sony replaced one TCD-3 which they couldn't fix, and were notoriously expensive to service.

Bodacious, expansive, Jupiter transits through rambunctious, pioneering Aries until June. Fortuitous for confident, bold, initiative, striking out into new directions, launching major projects with enterprise.

Feelings are close to the surface as a Full Moon in Cancer raises the emotional tide. Harmonious trine aspects to bold Jupiter and progressive Uranus in the fluid waters of imaginative Pisces open doors to usher in beneficial new year changes. Further aided by the Sun joining Mars in experimental, unconventional, tradition breaking, socially activating, Aquarius; the most wired signature of innovation, original sparks of invention, sharpened mental acuity. The current incendiary amplitude mobilising people power revolt and communal uprising. Eg: Popular political uprising in Tunisia confronting authoritarian nepotism.